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[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

We can't prove that the world we live in wasn't created last Thursday, with our memories, the growth rings in trees, and so on created by a (near) omnipotent trickster to deceive us. But science and rationality give us tools for determining what's worth taking seriously, and sorting out the reasonable, but unconfirmed, claims from the unverifiable hogwash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

What a tricky god to even implant memories of me imagining all of creation happening only a few seconds ago every time I read about this particular anecdote in the false past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) (2 children)

Pffff. Look at this conspiracy bullshit.

Everyone knows that the universe will actually be created tomorrow. What you are experiencing now is a flashback from tomorrow of what you did yesterday. Prove me wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 minutes ago (1 children)

You believe in existence? Please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

I don't yet, but tomorrow is the day for sure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

Actually the universe was created on Jan 1st 1970. That's why computers sometimes have errors with pre-1970 dates, it's the universal simulation glitching due to the high clock rate of computers compared to the universe's. Anyone who claims to have been born before 1970/01/01 is a simulation that's lying to you, and anyone born after is real, hence why now that its more player characters than NPCs things are going off the rails politically and socially!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)